An alternative to Windows Explorer.

"Lightscreen is a simple tool to automate the tedious process of saving and cataloging screenshots, it operates as a hidden background process that is invoked with one (or multiple) hotkeys and then saves a screenshot file to disk according to the user's preferences."

Daehun uses this for the screenshots/pictures in his papers.

"Texts is a new kind of editor for creation of text structure and content. Books, articles and blog posts written once in Texts can be processed and published in many formats."

SMPlayer

Short description: http://lifehacker.com/5799313/secretsync-secures-your-sensitive-files-before-syncing-them-to-dropbox-and-weve-got-beta-invites

"DriveLetterView is a simple utility that allows you to view the list of all drive letter assignments in your system, including local drives, remote network drives, CD/DVD drives, and USB drives - even if they are not currently plugged. It also allows you to easily change a drive letter of USB devices and remote network shares, as well as to delete a drive letter of USB device that is not plugged."

"ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images (DVD support is only available on Windows Vista), copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder."

"NEF Codec is a module that makes Nikon RAW (.NEF) image files as easy to work with as JPEG and TIFF images."

"When it finds an iPod Touch or iPhone it seamlessly mounts it to your file system so you can directly access its files using Windows Explorer, Finder and every other program."

It's supposed to be able to download videos from antenna.gr.

"Grease is a minimalist music player for Windows. Pick a directory of MP3 and/or M4A files, and Grease will play them in random order, letting you pause, skip tracks and adjust the volume from the keyboard."

"Listary is an excellent find-as-you-type search utility that makes searching items in large unmanageable lists of Windows applications a breeze. Items in Windows Explorer, Task Manager, Registry Editor, Windows Desktop, file Open/Save dialogs and numerous other components and third-party applications can be found instantaneously with this free utility that allows you to type any part of the item name to be searched."

$200

$25 — "PTLens is software that corrects lens pincushion/barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective."

$60